NOTE -Scots
Family is no longer taking orders for Ethnoancestry . It is in the process of conversion to ScotlandsDNA

When the paper
trail in Scotland runs cold, today there is another powerful tool to use for
your Scottish genealogy search - your DNA.

For people with Scottish ancestral links, there
is a
DNA test which can determine whether your Scottish
ancestry is linked to the early Pict settlers of Scotland, the
colonising Norse Vikings, or to early medieval Ireland.

The
Picts are believed to be the descendants of the first
people to colonise Scotland after the glaciers retreated at the end of
the last ice age. Until recently the degree to which present day Scots
(and their diaspora) are descended from these mysterious people was
unknown. However, recent genetic analysis has revealed the existence
of two Pictish Y chromosome signatures which are most common
in Scotland, but rarely seen in England or continental Europe. The
Ethnoancestry Haploview test will determine your relationship to the Pictish
signatures.

The Norse Vikings spread out
from their native Scandinavia in their seaworthy longships in the
Viking age, starting around AD 793. Although famous for looting and
pillaging, genetic evidence attests their colonisation of Iceland, the
Faeroes, the Northern Isles of Scotland and to a lesser degree other
parts of Scotland and England, and the Isle of Man. The Haploview test
will determine whether your relationship is to
one of a number of Viking signatures.

Somerled - Lord of the Isles
Somerled (c1100-1164) , King of Argyll and the Isles, is known for driving the Vikings out
of the Hebrides. His dynasty, the Lordship of the Isles, ruled
the Hebrides till 1493. Genetic analysis of several Chiefs of Clan
Donald with documented descent from Somerled, showed that all share
the same Y chromosome type, confirming their genealogies. This type is
carried by tens of thousands of men today with names like MacDonald
and MacDougall. The Ethnoancestry Haploview test will determine your relationship to the Somerled haplotype.

Medieval Ireland - Niall of the Nine
Hostages
Recent genetic studies at Trinity College Dublin have discovered the
genetic signature of the most important dynasty of early medieval
Ireland, the Ui Niell, literally the descendants of
Niall, a fifth century warlord whose descendants claimed the high
kingship of Ireland. The Haploview test will look for
these genetic markers. Possession of the Medieval Irish type in a Scot
with a typical Scottish surname is a good indicator of Dalriadic Scots
origins.

NOTE -Scots Family is no longer
taking orders for Ethnoancestry . It is in the process of conversion to ScotlandsDNA